The Airport Way industrial area was set up by the City as an area for industrial businesses to locate in the late 70's early 80's. They moved several existing businesses there and set it up as an industrial urban renewal area. They told companies this was the area where they wanted them to be. Now they want to chase them all out for environmental reasons related to the Slough. Typical Portland.

The insanity of Sam & Co. on their selectivity of what's Green just keeps growing. Sam wants the already existing, viable, long-time developed industrial zone of the North Harbor along the Willamette to have trees and walks to extend right through the skidways of Gunderson Shipyards. But then he forgets his Green agenda on Hayden Island.

I must say, though, that the industrial zones of Portland have been whittled away; and it's showing in the loss of manufacturing/industrial jobs for our region. Kalama has a good sales pitch to attract businesses to WA, and it is working.

The timing of this story can't be coincidental. It must be that the hundreds (thousands?) of sustainability employees at the city were outraged by the city council's crazy decision to pave over a huge island wildlife sanctuary. What's the point of the urban growth boundary or the billions of subsidies to build expensive dense housing stock, if we're going to turn around and take pristine habitat for bald eagles, spotted owls, wolves, bears, wolverines, whooping cranes, jaguars, American dippers, elk, salamanders, muskrats, frogs, hawks, coyotes, crawdads, etc. and turn it into oil refineries, tanneries, aluminum smelters, natural gas terminals, fat rendering facilities, chemical weapons incinerators, and factories to make dioxin, napalm, paints, or whatever they eventually do with it? I don't want all those dangerous animals who just lost their homes to swimming or flying over here to exact their revenge on us. That inevitable stampede is probably the environmental disaster that the sustainabilty employees are so worried about that they decided to highlight the absurdity of the city's conflicting policies with this news story. I think this reveals a mutinous undercurrent within Portland's government.